Today, Ventura holds the auction record for contemporary Southeast Asian art, having sold one of his large graphite, acrylic and oil on canvas works, “Grayground,” for HK$8.42 million, or US$1.1 million, at Sotheby's Hong Kong. “These are the kinds of ... full story
Yayoi Kusama (born 1929) is a renowned Japanese artist at the forefront of the avant-garde. The most recent collaboration with Louis Vuitton consists of 7 concept stores in key markets – Hong Kong, Shinjuku and Ginza in Tokyo, Paris, London, Singapore ... full story
The Asia Contemporary Art Show is dedicated to affordable art from a range of mediums, priced between HK$30,000 and HK$ 80,000. The show will be held October 4-7 at the Grand Hyatt Hong Kong. More than 60 rooms at the hotel will be taken over by ... full story
So far Western firms have been doing nicely running their Chinese-art auctions from Hong Kong, though now Sotheby's is seeking to enter the mainland by means of a joint venture with Gehua, a smaller mainland auction house. The head of Christie's in ... full story
Now it is organising its first offering of western furniture and other decorative arts in Asia, a selling exhibition in Hong Kong (November 8-16). Sotheby's Patti Wong sees the exhibition as catering to “the diversifying taste of Asian collectors ... full story
French artist JR poses in front of his artworks in Hong Kong on September 17, 2012. The French street "photograffeur" is in Hong Kong for his first solo exhibition to open on September 18, 2012. (PHILIPPE LOPEZ - AFP/GETTY IMAGES). Contemporary Wing ... full story
The Eighth Fine Art Asia is set to run from Oct 4-7 at Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center. The largest expo of international art and antique works in Asia, The Fine Art Asia 2012 will present more than 6,000 exhibits from some 100 galleries ... full story
"We have cultivated a base of collectors from Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Indonesia by participating in art fairs in Hong Kong and Taipei," he said. "And our upcoming exhibition program will be devoted to roughly 50 percent Japanese and 50 percent ... full story
HONG KONG — Global auction house Sotheby's said Friday it's setting up a Chinese joint venture that will allow it to become the first foreign company to hold art sales in the world's biggest fine art market. The company said it signed a deal to set up ... full story
Based in Hong Kong and New York, Sundaram Tagore has visited 90 countries and spends two weeks of every month traveling to meet clients and artists for his five eponymous galleries in the U.S. and Asia. He spoke to the Journal about the dangers of ... full story
